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We celebrate 75 years of the NHS with 75 great pictures of Derbyshire health workers over the decades

By Brian Eyre
Published 5th Jul 2023, 11:15 BST
Updated 5th Jul 2023, 11:19 BST
As the NHS marks its 75th anniversary, these great pictures from hospitals across Derbyshire so what life has been like for local doctors, nurses and health workers down the decades.

See if you can spot anyone you know in these 75 photos taken from our own archiv,e plus pictures from Chesterfield Library’s local studies collection

Nurses at a candle-lit carol service at the Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1966

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Nurses at a candle-lit carol service at the Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1966 Photo: Jason Chadwick

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Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital at Calow - getting equipment ready for opening - April 1984

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Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital at Calow - getting equipment ready for opening - April 1984 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers

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Cutting the turkey at Ripley Hospital in 1963.

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Cutting the turkey at Ripley Hospital in 1963. Photo: George Eyre

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Chesterfield Royal Hospital nurses and Chesterfield Police take on a trolley bed race to mark the opening of the Inner Ring Road in the town in 1984

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Chesterfield Royal Hospital nurses and Chesterfield Police take on a trolley bed race to mark the opening of the Inner Ring Road in the town in 1984 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers

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